A TAINTED SOURCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 13 October 1916, Page 4

A TAINTED SOURCE.

Referring to a New \ ork cablegram which we published a few days ago,! a writer in the Sydney Telegraph says: The source of the interview with the Crown Prince is somewhat tainted, for the New -York American is not only pro-German, hut a publication more yellow than tire worst of the other yellow journals ot the earth. But that the man who was one of the most violent of the provocative elements in the German war party should now he calling for peace is a fitting climax to his exploits. The Crown Prince has been a failure in the war, and an egregious failure at that. His attack on Verdun was the culmination. That the man who sacrificed human life with reckless prodigality in the gigantic but fruitless Effort to break the French lines should prefer now to see the energies of mankind devoted to intellectual cultivation and material progress means that this Prince is beginning to grow apprehensive as to the future of his dynasty. And this must gradually become the most serious consideration for the reigning house in Germany. The vigorous propaganda by Court and political circles to persuade the German people that Germany did not begin the war, hut that she was brutally attacked—no doubt by Belgium—is clearly motived by the need for justifying a conflict that has failed, and that the further it goes scan only make the disaster more overwhelming.